Fun Stuff with Carrots

The popularity of the carrot is not simply due to its health benefits, delicious
flavour and ease of growing. Carrots have become popular at least in part
because of the way they have entered the public imagination. Much of the credit
must go to Bugs Bunny, who first appeared on our screens in 1938. Bugs has had
numerous catchphrases, the most prominent being a casual "Eh... What's up,
doc?", usually said while chewing a carrot. From this moment on carrots were
associated with fun and enjoyment.

Jokes"Clean" Carrot jokes are bit thin on
the ground (just like you should sow carrots) But here's a few presentable
ones:

JOKE A. Whenever the conversation gets around to
Murphy's Law which states "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong", it
is always good fun to slip something like the following statement into the
conversation

"But that's not as bad as Cole's
Law">

Continue the conversation and someone
is bound to ask "What is Coles Law?".

To which you simply answer "Shredded
carrot and cabbage in mayonnaise.".... Aargh!!

JOKE
B.
A guy walks into a doctors office with a carrot in his ear and a piece of celery
up his nose. He says: " Doc, I don't know what's wrong with me!" The doctor
thinks for a while, and finally says "bingo! I know what's wrong with you!" The patient says "Really? What is it?".
"You're not eating right."

JOKE C.There was this guy who was eating
out when this lady noticed a piece of corn in his ear. He pulled it out,
then forgot about it and carried on. Then he found a chunk of carrot but
he still continued oblivious to the world. Then he found a pea. The lady
had enough exclaiming,

"Are you sick or
something?"

"No but the last guy sat next to
me was," came the reply.

JOKE D. How do you
make gold soup?? Answer take 22 carrots!!

JOKE E
. There were two carrots walking
down the road, a big carrot and a little carrot. On the other side of the
road they see their friend cabbage in his cabbage patch. Big carrot says
"Let's go visit cabbage on the other side of the road." Little carrot says
"But there is so much traffic here I'm afraid I might get run
over."

Big carrot says "Nonsense,
just wait for a break in the traffic and run as fast as you can." Big carrot
sees a break in the traffic and runs over to cabbage. He then calls to is
friend to try. Little carrot gets ready, sees a break in the traffic and
runs across the road. Unfortunately there was a big truck coming and little
carrot gets squashed in the middle of the road. Big carrot feels really bad
and scoops his friend up and takes him to the hospital. The doctors perform
emergency surgery.

After several hours the doctor comes
out. "I have some good news and some bad news." Big carrot says "Ok doc,
go ahead, I can take it." The doctor says, "Well the good news is that your
friend is going to live, but the bad news is he's going to be a vegetable
for the rest of his life."

JOKE
F. A guy goes into the bar
with a carrot in his ear. He orders a drink. The bar tender wants to mention
the carrot but doesn't.

Next day the same guy with a carrot in
his ear goes to the same bar and orders a drink. Again the bar tender wants
to say something about the carrot but doesn't.

The 3rd day the same guy and the same
carrot go to the bar and order a drink. As the bar tender serves the man
he can't stand it anymore. He says to the patron, "Hey Mack, you know you
got a carrot in your ear? The patron says to the bartender, I can't hear
you because I've got a carrot in my ear.

JOKE G.

Knock Knock -Who's
there?

Carrot! - Carrot who?

Carrot me back home!

JOKE H.

What do you call an elephant with a
carrot in each ear?

Anything you want as he can't hear
you!

JOKE I.

Confucius says, "Woman who cook carrots
and peas in same pot, very unsanitary."

JOKE JA rabbit went to a general store in the
countryside: "Do you have any carrots?"
The clerk replied: "Sorry, don't have any"
So the rabbit went away. He came back the next morning, and again asked:
"do you have any carrots?" And the clerk replied again: "Sorry, don't
have any"
This happened every morning for about a week. Then one morning, the clerk
was getting a bit p****d off about the rabbit coming over every morning,
so he said to the rabbit: "Now look, we don't sell any carrots here, you
ask for carrots one more time, I'll nail you to the wall from your ears!"
The rabbit stood still for a while, and went away.
The next morning the rabbit came to the store again, and asked: "Do you have
any nails?"
The clerk was a bit confused, but replied: "No, I just run out of nails,
sorry little fella."
The rabbit: "Well do you have any carrots, then?"

JOKE KTwo women were digging in the garden. One pulls out a two
foot carrot. She says, "This one reminds me of my husband's." The second woman
says, "Your husbands is that long?" "No, that dirty."

Variation to K - "Two women were digging in the garden. One pulls out a two foot
purple carrot. "This one reminds me of my husbands," she says. The second woman
takes the long bumpy into her hands and analyzes the carrot closer. She even
smells it and then replies, "Yeah, it sort of does look like your husbands.

JOKE L
Did you hear about the carrot detective? He got to the root of every case!

JOKE M
Two snowmen in a field. One sniffs the air and says to the other "Can you smell
carrot?"...

There are many
games people play with some of the larger vegetables. Some towns have
pumpkin catapult contests and others will play
softball using very large zucchini squash as
softball bats.

The possibilities are only limited by your imagination. It might be fun to
think of a game to play with the large carrots. Why not try the teasers or
carrot party game or other fun stuff shown elsewhere in the museum?

Lucky Seven Carrots - The game is pure luck - from one to four may play using
[only] the ace through 7 cards [from a regular deck] each ~ ignore suits. Of
course, kids could make their own cards. ​​T​he mechanic that drives it is known
as a mathematical strange loop and winning is all in the shuffling and dealing.
Pdf download here.

PUZZLE NO 1. And the
answer is .....

It's simple enough. Try it out on your
friends. Ask these questions ensuring that they answer
quickly.

Kids who like to play with their food
might want to try their hands at this Chinese carrot stick game.
To solve the puzzle, have your kids arrange 18 carrot sticks into nine
equal-sided (equilateral) triangles as shown right.

The challenge is to remove three sticks to change the
pattern into six equilateral triangles. Like any good brainteaser, this
carrot stick puzzle has several possible solutions. See how many different
ways your family can solve the problem. Click on the picture for the answer.

Puzzle No 3 - Another Triangle Test

The challenge is to move any three sticks to form four equilateral
triangles the same size as the original two. This carrot stick puzzle has
but one solution​​.

​A clue is, 'Think like an Egyptian'

Please attempt BOTH puzzles before seeking the answers.

The Thumb
Trick

Break a
carrot MagicTrick

This is a painful looking
trick!

Take a carrot before the trick starts and
cut one end off about the size of your thumb and then hide it in your hand.
Start the trick be saying you are going to put needles through your thumb.

Take a handkerchief and put it over your thumb but actually stick the carrot
up instead of your thumb. now stick the pins through your "thumb" and make
a pained expression then take them out and grab the carrot off with your
handkerchief and casually set them aside.

Break a carrot with a piece of
paper.

What you need: A very thin carrot
and a piece of paper.

1. Hold the carrot in one hand, and the
piece of paper (folded in half) in the other hand.
2. Keep your index finger behind the paper so the audience doesn't see it.
3. Move the paper across the middle of the carrot, and break it by applying
pressure with your finger (but don't let anyone see it!)
4. It will appear as if you broke the carrot with the piece of paper!

A Quick Party
Game: Pass the carrot
Choose a long carrot and get your guests to pass it to the person next to them -
between their knees. Cut 1 or 2cm off the carrot each time it is dropped.

When the carrot is so small that it can't
be passed on, then holder is the winner.

Experiments carried out by university
lecturers on students, psychologists on colleagues and teachers on pupils
have shown that between 66% and 90% come up with the answer Carrot!!

Readers of the "New Scientist" are puzzling
over why this should be. Random tests simply asking to name a vegetable came
up with random answers. What is further intriguing is that many other answers
when not carrot were orange or something orange!

Another experiment showed that 60% answered
carrot and a further 20% answered cabbage.

Extra data:

1. The experiment
doesn't work well on people who do not have English as their first
language.
2. A curiously common answer is "orange", or "something orange".
3. If you do a similar experiment asking people to name a vegetable with
no preamble, the response is fairly random with peas and potatoes being the
most common.

Favoured
hypotheses:

So why is that people say "carrot" when they are asked to name a vegetable
after doing simple mental arithmetic. Here are some suggestions:

1. "Carrot" sounds like "count/counting".
2. The series of ever increasing numbers resembles a continuously increasing
shape - like a carrot - although the "equals six" experiment would seem to
discount this.
3. The conceptual image of a carrot is the simplest mathematical/geometrical
vegetable: a rotated triangle.
4. "Carrot" is the most common vegetable, and therefore the one that most
people are likely to think of when they're asked the question: "Name a
vegetable."
5. A "carrot" is the most distinctive vegetable because of its colour and
shape, and it is what is scientifically known as a "cool" vegetable.
6. The subjects are making an association of sounds between the vowel sound
"a" in the word "maths", and the vowel sound "a" in the word "carrot". This
would seem to be very logical because the word "cabbage", which was the second
most popular choice of vegetable, also has the same vowel sound "a".
7. There is some connection between the conceptual image of a carrot, and
the geometrical shape formed by the sums. The ever-increasing series of numbers
form a shape in the subjects' mind, which resembles a pyramid-type geometrical
form, which is similar to a carrot.
8. Carrots are also suggestive of a particular anatomical feature of the
human body; and perhaps this is a case of the subconscious thought being
expressed without censorship.
There has been an in depth discussion
on this phenomenon in the "New Scientist". If you are interested
click here (opens in new window) - scroll down to "carrot brains". Click here to get
back to the question and puzzle no 2.